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Flashback: G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’ | UK: Police caught on tape trying to recruit climate activist as informant | G20 protests: Riot police, or rioting police? | Rioters Were Paid To Provoke the Police in Bulgaria | Greek Cops Caught on Video Posing as Anarchists | ACLU wants probe into police-staged DNC protest | Ex-Italian President: Provocateur Riots Then “Beat The Shit Out Of Protesters” | Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of ‘Fear’ | Police inspector posed as militant protester | Quebec police admit agents posed as protesters | Canadians who trust our secret police should think again

Steve Watson, Infowars.net
June 15, 2009

Pentagon training course says engaging in First Amendment is terrorist activity

Current Department of Defense anti-terrorism training course material states that the exercise of First Amendment rights in the U.S. constitutes terrorist activity.

The ACLU has written to the DoD regarding its Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course, which advises personnel that political protest amounts to “low-level terrorism”.

“It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense’s Annual Level I Antiterrorism (AT) Training for 2009 misinforms Department of Defense (DoD) personnel that certain First Amendment-protected activity may amount to “low level terrorism” The ACLU writes.

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Flashback: Mounties want to bar Taser inquiry from finding misconduct | RCMP spokesman told to hold off correcting false details of Dziekanski incident, inquiry hears | RCMP supervising officer contradicts earlier testimony in Dziekanski inquiry | RCMP to face no charges in case of TASERed Polish immigrant: Report | Mountie involved in fatal crash was supervisor at time of airport Taser death | Perjury: Is it different for cops? | Mounties censor Taser report

Ian Bailey, The Globe and Mail
June 15, 2009

In March, officer Millington wowed the commission with his harrowing demonstration of Dziekanski’s deadly office stapler technique.

Poland’s lawyer at the Braidwood commission says a court ruling Monday has given him the go-ahead to press for misconduct rulings against four Mounties involved in the fatal confrontation with Robert Dziekanski.

“That is precisely where we were going with our cross-examination in the last five months, and we’re comforted the courts have given us the green light to consider our allegations,” said Don Rosenbloom.

“It was one of the primary focuses of our intervention.”

Justice Arnie Silverman on Monday rejected arguments by lawyers for the RCMP officers that Thomas Braidwood, as the leader of a provincial commission, did not have the authority to level findings of misconduct against members of the national police force.

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Flashback: Flaherty looks for way to end stimulus | Report from the 2009 Bilderberg Conference | US backing for world currency stuns markets | Geithner Said to Have Prevailed on the Bailout | Flaherty appoints business leaders to economic advisory council | Flaherty calls for mandatory IMF surveillance | Flaherty lauds Keynesian global ‘economic stimulus’ strategies | Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? | Globalists Exploit Financial Meltdown In Move Towards One World Currency | Behind the panic: Financial warfare over the future of global bank power | Bilderberg Seeks Bank Centralization Agenda

Ashley Seager, The Guardian
June 15, 2009

Strauss-Kahn referred to credit growth as a sign that financial activity was beginning to pick up

The worst may yet lie ahead for the world economy in the current financial crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned today.

Speaking during a trip to Kazakhstan, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said he largely agreed with the weekend conclusion of finance ministers from the G8 nations that the global economy was showing signs of stabilising after the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

“Their (G8) stance is that we are beginning to see some green shoots but nevertheless we have to be cautious,” he said in opening remarks before closed-door talks with the Kazakh prime minister, Karim Masimov. “The large part of the worst is not yet behind us.”

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Hands off Africa. Everything the West has attempted to do, under the guise of charity, sincere or not, has turned to shit. Africans, too, are beginning to realize this, at least according to The Walrus. This journal expects they’ve known for rather longer than we think.

Flashback: Pfizer to be called on carpet in Nigeria for experimenting on children | Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria | Polio Warning Issued for Travel to Nigeria | Alberta Barren: The Mannings and forced sterilization in Canada

Geoffery York, Globe and Mail
June 15, 2009

Dozens of African women are fighting back after having been made infertile without their knowledge or consent because they are HIV-positive

‘The doctor is always right – that’s what we grow up with. They tell you to do something, and you do it,’ said Esther Sheehama, a 26-year-old HIV-positive woman in Windhoek who was sterilized without her knowledge in 2003.

A few weeks after giving birth to a baby boy by Caesarian section, Hilma Nendongo went back to hospital to have the stitches removed. A nurse glanced at her medical record and casually asked her a horrifying question.

“Oh,” the nurse said, “did they tell you that you had been sterilized?”

Ms. Nendongo, a 30-year-old villager from northern Namibia who barely spoke English, tore through her personal health card, looking for a clue to what had been done to her in the state hospital.

She couldn’t read any of the doctor’s scrawled handwriting, except for the word “stop” and the word “closed.” She later discovered the sickening truth: this was a common code for a tubal ligation, the most frequent form of sterilization in Namibia.

She suddenly remembered that the hospital staff had told her to sign some papers as she entered the operating room for her C-section. Nobody had explained the papers.

“It was a very big shock,” she said, brushing back tears. “I was very emotional. I cried a lot. I wanted a sister for my three boys, and now I can’t have one.”

She returned to the hospital to search for the doctor who had sterilized her. She hoped that somehow he could reverse the operation. But every time she went to the hospital, the staff said the doctor was busy or away.

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While Iran wants to paint this as a Soros-funded colour revolution – a not entirely unreasonable suspicion, given that NGO’s activites in Georgia and other areas.  However the facts in this case indicate that the challenger Mousavi is so connected to the Iranian revolution (the clique that put the Ayatollahs in power in the first place) that this is highly unlikely. May the students at these protests be protected as they try to awaken their fellow citizens to the need for liberty in the ancient land of Persia. These transformations must come from within a culture.

Flashback: Iranian protesters trash Tehran | Blast at Iranian mosque raises tensions in run-up to presidential election | Netanyahu: We may be forced to attack Iran | Neo-cons still preparing for Iran attack | US scales up covert destabilization efforts in Iran, continues funding ‘al-Qaeda’ | Israelis ‘rehearse Iran attack’ | Bush ‘plans Iran air strike by August’ | U.S. Navy starts exercises in Gulf waters | U.S. National Intelligence Estimate: Iran stopped nuclear weapons work in 2003 | Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran | Former CIA Officer – US Plans Nuclear Attack On Iran | U.S. sending third aircraft carrier to the Middle East | US aircraft carriers in Persian Gulf | Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh: US Indirectly Funding Al-Qaeda Linked Sunni Groups in Move to Counter Iran

CBC News
June 15, 2009

Ayatollah Khamenei orders probe into disputed election

Shots were fired in central Tehran on Monday after tens of thousands of Iranians defied a government order and gathered downtown, hours after the country’s supreme leader ordered an investigation into allegations of fraud in the presidential election.

Some media reports said pro-government militias linked with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shot at and killed a protester.

An Associated Press photographer reported seeing one person shot dead, while several others appeared seriously wounded in Tehran’s Azadi Square. The shooting came from a compound for volunteer militia linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, the photographer reported.

Reuters news agency also quoted residents as saying they heard gunfire in three districts in the city’s north. The reports could not be independently confirmed.

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Look – your government could care less about you. Not necessarily the minor functionaries and beauracrats – those people may have good intentions. But the system as a whole is a machine, driven by powerful old families. As the late George Carlin said, it’s a club, and you’re not in it. You are regarded as a human resource, no better than an animal in a cage. Ask a veteran. Ask an aboriginal person. This situation will probably be stonewalled and ’studied’ for years. StatismWatch is sorry if you find that shocking. But comforting illusions do nothing to make the world a better place.

Flashback: Government Experiments on U.S. Soldiers: Shocking Claims Come to Light in New Court Case | Psychologists Helped Guide CIA Interrogations | Hepatitis C sufferers haven’t received promised federal money | Vets Sue CIA Over Mind Control Tests | Commission to Probe Graves at Native ‘Residential School’ Sites | Atomic-testing veterans to receive whopping $24,000 each in compensation | Remembering Brainwashing | Chinese Torture Techniques Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo | Victims of Factor 8 Blood Scandal Still Caught in ‘Waiting Game’ | Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established | Canadian MKULTRA project mind control victim to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing | Project Paperclip: The US Nazi Amnesty | Much of Britain sprayed in secret germ warfare tests

CBC News
June 15, 2009

Health officials have told residents of a small community on Labrador’s coast to be wary of possible contamination from an abandoned military site in their midst.

Serious PCB contamination has already been identified at a Cold War-era radar station on a hill near Hopedale.

But residents are worried about pollution that is now seeping up around people’s backyards.

“Drums full of tar [are] coming up, coming from under the ground,” said Sabrina Pijogge, crouching over a patch of the black ooze and metal that has extruded on to the ground by the foundation of her home.

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Meet the new boss… so, allegedly, this new general has been brought in to deal with ‘lack of focus and resources’. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the massive airstrike that has given the American forces such a (recent) black eye in the PR field and prompted the Pentagon to launch an investigation. Nothing at all.

Flashback: US air strikes kill dozens of Afghan civilians | NATO denies air strike killed Afghan civilians

CBC News
June 15, 2009

U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, right, salutes during his assumption of a command ceremony in Kabul on Monday. At left is German Gen. Egon Ramms, commander of the NATO’s Joint Force Command. (Ricardo Mazalan/Associated Press)

A four-star U.S. general took charge of roughly 88,000 American and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan Monday in a move the Pentagon hopes will help advance efforts to end the increasingly violent eight-year war.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal officially took command during a low-key ceremony at the headquarters of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in central Kabul.

He now commands roughly 88,000 American and NATO soldiers, including some of the most elite troops in the world: Canada’s JTF-2 commandos, U.S. marines and British special forces.

Under his command, the mission is expected to rely less on controversial aerial bombings to shut down Taliban bomb-making factories and cut off militant supply routes from Pakistan and make more use of ground operations.

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